The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.